I think Wii U will be hugely successful because MiiVerse is hugely successful already and will only get better from here. I love playing a game feeling some connection to online friends and community and the MiiVerse community is super awesome and active.

If there's one thing the founder of Atari knows in life is DOOM

now I'm worried.

people will keep on saying Nintendo is doomed until one day they are correct!

With all due respect to this man, I mean mainly because of him we are even playing games today, he doesn't really have the expertise to predict what people will want to consume. Judging by the 5200 and 7200 fiascos.

I think WiiU already did...

Its like that saying of a broken clock getting the time right twice a day lol.

I'm sure someone predicted the virtual boy would fail as well.

Well, his age is really starting to show.



Nintendo has Mario. No more needs to be said.

He offered his two cents and his opinion is worth less than two cents.

@UltimateUnknown

That has to be the nightmare scenario right there. In a world where we don't necessarily trust our own governments that we elect into office. How much faith would you place in a company that can basically hold a game you bought hostage. That they will always do the honorable thing. They will just interpret purchases as licensed rentals, and as such they will reserve the right to revoke your license. I just don't see gamers placing that much faith in the cloud as a end all and be all.

We will always demand hardware, and property that we can physically hold. Whether it is a game disc, or stored in a storage device that we own. Do you seriously expect gamers to forfeit their property rights. Bloody wars have erupted at the mere suggestion. That said console generations will probably end once we hit hard limits on the power of technology, and there are hard limits on technology.

Gamers will probably be using portable memory units that can store their entire software collections, and almost every screened device will have the hardware built in to play those games. I just don't see gamers relinquishing the act of actually owning their games.

Aren't you over-reacting a bit? I can see problems arising if companies close down servers late in a game's life, but they can always allow you to download a copy of the game for yourself if such a thing happens. I mean online servers do close down eventually (like Halo 2) so you can't play online anymore, but at least you can play single player. I don't think anyone complained about that because after 10 years it's not that big of a deal. I'm also sure that as more services such as movie/games/music become cloud there will also be laws put in place from a company taking away your license to the game and shutting off access without at least offering some form of physical media or download as recompense.

Again I can't comment much on the details of what will happen eventually, but I can definitely see cloud gaming becoming the norm in the future. I like the idea of not having to own expensive or exclusive hardware to play a video game. Just a strong internet connection and a copy of the game to play anywhere anytime on any device.

Try 5 years